Antoine Acker, Volkswagen in the Amazon: The Tragedy of Global Development in Modern Brazil, honourable mention 2018 Warren Dean Memorial Prize for the Best Book in Brazilian History, Conference on Latin American History
Ari Adut, Reign of Appearances: The Misery and Splendor of the Public Sphere, winner 2020 Theory Prize, American Sociological Association
Luisa Alemany and Job J Andreoli, Entrepreneurial Finance: The Art and Science of Growing Ventures, 2021 TAA Most Promising New Textbook Award
Hilary Appel and Mitchell A Orenstein, From Triumph to Crisis: Neoliberal Economic Reform in Postcommunist Countries, Laura Shannon Prize Silver Medals, The Nanovic Institute for European Studies at the University of Notre Dame
Jackson W Armstrong, England’s Northern Frontier: Conflict and Local Society in the Fifteenth-Century Scottish Marches, joint winner RHS Whitfield Prize, British and Irish History, Royal Historical Society
Erica L Ball, Tatiana Seijas and Terri L Snyder, As If She Were Free: A Collective Biography of Women and Emancipation in the Americas, One of the Best Black History Books of 2020, Black Perspectives
Michael Bennett, War Against Smallpox: Edward Jenner and the Global Spread of Vaccination, a BBC History Magazine Book of the Year 2020
Katherine Bersch, When Democracies Deliver: Governance Reform in Latin America, winner 2020 Charles H. Levine Memorial Book Awarded by the International Political Science Association, winner 2020 SPAR Best Book Award, Section on Public Administration Research of the American Society for Public Administration and winner 2020 Donna Lee Van Cott Best Book Prize, Latin American Studies Association
Debjani Bhattacharyya, Empire and Ecology in the Bengal Delta: The Making of Calcutta, honourable mention 2017–18 Best Book in Non-North American History Award
Irving J Bigio and Sergio Fantini, Quantitative Biomedical Optics: Theory, Methods, and Applications, 2020 Joseph W. Goodman Book Writing Award, The Optical Society
Fahad Ahmad Bishara, A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780–1950, winner 2018 Peter Gonville Stein Book Award, American Society for Legal History
Christina Boswell, Manufacturing Political Trust: Targets and Performance Measurement in Public Policy winner 2021 PSA McKenzie Prize, Political Studies Association
Will Bowers, The Italian Idea: Anglo-Italian Radical Literary Culture, 1815–1823, shortlisted 2021 British Association of Romantic Studies First Book Prize, British Association for Romantic Studies
Larissa Brewer-García, Beyond Babel: Translations of Blackness in Colonial Peru and New Granada, winner 2020 Flora Tristán Prize for Best Book
Robert Braun, Protectors of Pluralism: Religious Minorities and the Rescue of Jews in the Low Countries during the Holocaust, winner 2020 Charles Tilly Book Award, American Sociological Association
Hilary M Carey, Empire of Hell: Religion and the Campaign to End Convict Transportation in the British Empire, 1788-1875, winner Kay Daniels Prize, Australian Historical Association, 2020
Erin Aeran Chung, Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies, winner 2021 Section on Asia and Asian America’s Transnational Asia Best Book Award, American Sociological Association
Jeffrey M Chwieroth, The Wealth Effect: How the Great Expectations of the Middle Class Have Changed the Politics of Banking Crises, Stein Rokkan Prize 2020
Theodore W Cohen, Finding Afro-Mexico: Race and Nation after the Revolution, co-winner 2021 Howard F. Cline Book Prize in Mexican History and honourable mention 2021 Best Book Award in the Social Sciences, Latin American Studies Association
Elena Cooper, Art and Modern Copyright: The Contested Image, shortlisted SLS Peter Birks Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship 2020
Samuel Fury Childs Daly, A History of the Republic of Biafra: Law, Crime, and the Nigerian Civil War, winner 2021 J. Willard Hurst Book Prize
Santanu Das, India, Empire, and First World War Culture: Writings, Images, and Songs, winner ESSE Book Award for Cultural and Area Studies in English, winner 2019 The Hindu Non-Fiction Prize and winner 2020 The Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize
Brian W Dotts, Educational Foundations: Philosophical and Historical Perspectives, winner 2020 Outstanding Book Award, Society of Professors of Education
Paulo Drinot, The Sexual Question: A History of Prostitution in Peru, honourable mention 2021 Bryce Wood Book Award
Alex Edmans, Grow the Pie: How Great Companies Deliver Both Purpose and Profit, winner Financial Times Business Book of the Month, March 2020 and longlisted Financial Times Summer Books of 2020
John P R Eicher, Exiled Among Nations: German and Mennonite Mythologies in a Transnational Age, winner 2021 Dale W. Brown Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies and 2021 Fred Allen Womack and Frances Sue Zimmerman Womack Book Award
Sam Erman, Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U.S. Constitution, and Empire, winner 2020 William Nelson Cromwell Foundation Book Prize, American Society for Legal History
Steven Fabian, Making Identity on the Swahili Coast: Urban Life, Community, and Belonging in Bagamoyo, finalist 2020 Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize, African Studies Association
Rosamond Faith, The Moral Economy of the Countryside: Anglo-Saxon to Anglo-Norman England, winner, 2020 Joan Thirsk Memorial Prize, British Agricultural History Society
Johnathan Fennell, Fighting the People’s War: The British and Commonwealth Armies and the Second World War, winner 2020 Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), winner 2020 Templer Medal for the History of the British Army, Society for Army Historical Research (SAHR), winner 2020 Silver Award, Military History Matters Book of the Year, shortlisted 2020 Military Book of the Year, British Army and one of The Guardian Readers’ ‘Books of the Year, 2019’
Pamina Firchow, Reclaiming Everyday Peace: Local Voices in Measurement and Evaluation After War, winner 2020 Conflict Research Society Book of the Year Prize
Mikkel Flyverbom, The Digital Prism, finalist 2020 George R. Terry Book Award
Simon Franklin, The Russian Graphosphere, 1450–1850, winner ASEEES USC Book Prize in Literary and Cultural Studies 2020 and honourable mention Eighteenth-Century Russian Studies Association Mark Raeff Book Prize 2020
Jeff Forret, Williams’ Gang: A Notorious Slave Trader and his Cargo of Black Convicts, winner 2021 Leadership in History Award, Large Press category, American Association for State and Local History
Maziyar Ghiabi, Drugs Politics: Managing Disorder in the Islamic Republic of Iran, winner 2020 Nikki Keddie Book Award, Middle East Studies Association
Subhashis Ghosal and Aad van der Vaart, Fundamentals of Nonparametric Bayesian Inference, winner DeGroot Prize 2019, The International Society for Bayesian Analysis
Erika Graham-Goering, Princely Power in Late Medieval France: Jeanne de Penthièvre and the War for Brittany, shortlisted 2021 Gladstone Prize, Royal Historical Society
Jean-Christophe Graz, The Power of Standards: Hybrid Authority and the Globalisation of Services, winner 2021 EAEPE Joan Robinson Prize, European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy
Raphael Greenberg, The Archaeology of the Bronze Age Levant: From Urban Origins to the Demise of City-States, 3700–1000 BCE, winner 2020 G. Ernest Wright Award, American Schools of Oriental Research
Sean Griffin, The Liturgical Past in Byzantium and Early Rus, winner 2020 W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies and winner 2020 Ecclesiastical History Society Book Prize
Malachi Haim Hacohen, Jacob & Esau: Jewish European History Between Nation and Empire, winner 2020 Center for Austrian Studies Book Prize
Roderick P Hart, Civic Hope: How Ordinary Americans Keep Democracy Alive, winner 2019 Bruce E. Gronbeck Political Communication Research Award, National Communication Association
Boris Heersink and Jeffery A Jenkins, Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865–1968, winner V.O. Key Award 2021, Southern Political Science Association
Katie M Hemphill, Bawdy City: Commercial Sex and Regulation in Baltimore, 1790–1915, winner 2021 Mary Kelley Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic
Nate Holdren, Injury Impoverished: Workplace Accidents, Capitalism, and Law in the Progressive Era, honourable mention 2021 Merle Curti Intellectual History Award and winner 2021 Philip Taft Labor History Book Award
Alisha C Holland, Forbearance as Redistribution: The Politics of Informal Welfare in Latin America, winner 2017–2018 Best Book Award, Section of Political Institutions and Processes at the Latin American Studies Association
Mark Hunter, Race for Education, winner 2020 Joel Gregory Book Prize, Canadian Association of African Studies
Thomas Janoski and Darina Lepadatu, The Cambridge Handbook of Lean Production: Diverging Theories and New Industries around the World, winner 2021 Best Book Award International Lean Six Sigma Institute (ILSSI)
Nathan Kalmoe, With Ballots and Bullets: Partisanship and Violence in the American Civil War, co-winner 2021 David O. Sears Book Award, International Society of Political Psychology
Elizabeth Papp Kamali, Felony and the Guilty Mind in Medieval England, winner 2019 David Yale Book Prize, Seldon Society
Dilek Kurban, Limits of Supranational Justice: The European Court of Human Rights and Turkey’s Kurdish Conflict, special mention 2021 Book Prize, ICON-S (International Society of Public Law)
Colin Lawson, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Historical Performance in Music, winner 2019 C.B. Oldman Prize, IAML (UK & Ireland)
Amy Lai, The Right to Parody: Comparative Analysis of Copyright and Free Speech, winner Exceptional Scholarship Award, 2020 HxA Open Inquiry Awards, Heterodox Academy
Janet I Lewis, How Insurgency Begins: Rebel Group Formation in Uganda and Beyond, winner 2021 Book of the Year Prize, Conflict Research Society
Ernest Lim, A Case for Shareholders’ Fiduciary Duties in Common Law Asia, joint runner-up 2020 Peter Birks Book Prize for Outstanding Legal Scholarship, Society of Legal Scholars
Elizabeth Macpherson, Indigenous Water Rights in Law and Regulation: Lessons from Comparative Experience, SAANZ Publication Prize 2020, Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand (LSAANZ)
Grégoire Mallard, Gift Exchange: The Transnational History of a Political Idea, joint winner 2020 History of Sociology Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, American Sociological Association
Nivi Manchanda, Imagining Afghanistan: The History and Politics of Imperial Knowledge, 2021 L. H. M. Ling Outstanding First Book Prize, The British International Studies Association
Desmond Manderson, Danse Macabre: Temporalities of Law in the Visual Arts, co-winner 2020 Australian Legal Research Book Award, Council of Australian Law Deans
Jen Manion, Female Husbands: A Trans History, finalist 2021 Lawrence W. Levine Award
Simon Martin, Ancient Maya Politics: A Political Anthropology of the Classic Period 150–900 CE, winner 2021 R.R. Hawkins Award, Association of American Publishers
Brendan McGeever, Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution, winner 2020 Reginald Zelnik Book Prize in History, honourable mention 2020 W. Bruce Lincoln Book Prize Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, honourable mention 2019 Alexander Nove Prize and winner 2021 Book Prize, British Association for Jewish Studies
Christoph O Meyer, Chiara De Franco and Florian Otto, Warning About War: Conflict, Persuasion and Foreign Policy, winner ICOMM Best Book Award and winner ISA Annual Best Book Award International Studies Association
Yuko Miki, Frontiers of Citizenship: A Black and Indigenous History of Postcolonial Brazil, winner 2019 Warren Dean Memorial Prize for the Best Book in Brazilian History, Conference on Latin American History, honourable mention 2019 Howard F. Cline Prize for the Best Book in Ethnohistory, Conference on Latin American History, finalist 2019 Outstanding First Book Award, Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora
Maria Monnheimer, Due Diligence Obligations in International Human Rights Law, winner Hermann Mosler Prize 2020/21, German Society of International Law/Deutschen Gesellschaft für Internationales Recht
Roberta Montemorra Martin, The Cambridge Verdi Encyclopedia, finalist Five Best Books on Verdi, Five Books (fivebooks.com)
Chris Moores, Civil Liberties and Human Rights in Twentieth-Century Britain, shortlisted 2018 Whitfield Book Prize, Royal Historical Society
Elisabetta Morlino, Procurement by International Organizations: A Global Administrative Law Perspective, winner 2020 ICON-S Book Prize, International Society of Public Law
Gabriel Ondetti, Property Threats and the Politics of Anti-Statism: The Historical Roots of Contemporary Tax Systems in Latin America, winner of 2021 Best Book (Economics and Politics Section), Latin American Studies Association
Ken Ochieng’ Opalo, Legislative Development in Africa: Politics and Postcolonial Legacies, co-winner 2020 African Politics Conference Group Best Book Award
Abena Dove Osseo-Asare, Atomic Junction: Nuclear Power in Africa after Independence, winner 2020 Martin A. Klein Prize, American Historical Association
Eleonora Pasotti, Resisting Redevelopment: Protest in Aspiring Global Cities, winner 2021 Charles Tilly Book Award, American Sociological Association
Anju Mary Paul, Multinational Maids: Stepwise Migration in a Global Labor Market, honourable mention 2020 Distinguished Scholarly Book Award 2019, American Sociological Association
Daniel Peat, Comparative Reasoning in International Courts and Tribunals, winner 2020 European Society of International Law Book Prize
Ronald C Po, The Blue Frontier: Maritime Vision and Power in the Qing Empire, winner 2019 Specialist Publication Accolade in the Humanities, International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS)
Dahlia Porter, Science, Form, and the Problem of Induction in British Romanticism, honourable mention 2019 University English Annual Book Prize and shortlisted 2019 British Association for Romantic Studies (BARS) First Book Prize
Harriet Phillips, Nostalgia in Print and Performance, 1510–1613: Merry Worlds, shortlisted Shakespeare’s Globe Book Award 2020
Davin Phoenix, The Anger Gap: How Race Shapes Emotion in Politics, co-winner 2020 Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Best Book Award, American Political Science Association
David Pyrooz and Scott Decker, Competing for Control: Gangs and the Social Order of Prisons, winner 2021 Outstanding Book Award, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences
Susan Rankin, Writing Sounds in Carolingian Europe: The Invention of Musical Notation, winner 2020 Early Music Award, American Musicological Society
Owen Rees, The Requiem of Tomás Luis de Victoria (1603), winner 2020 Robert M. Stevenson Award, American Musicological Society
Stephanie Rickard, Spending to Win: Political Institutions, Economic Geography, and Government Subsidies, Best Book Award International Political Economy Society
Erin Kathleen Rowe, Black Saints in Early Modern Global Catholicism, winner 2020 Albert C. Outler Prize, American Society of Church History and 2020 Bainton Prize for History and Theology, Sixteenth Century Society & Conference
Ruth Bloch Rubin, Building the Bloc: Intraparty Organization in the US Congress, winner 31st D.B. Hardeman Prize for the Best Book on the United States Congress, LBJ Foundation
Christina Schneider, The Responsive Union: National Elections and European Governance, winner EUSA Award for the Best Book Published in European Politics in 2019 and 2020, and honourable mention for the Best Book Award from ISA’s International Political Economy section
Emily Senior, The Caribbean and the Medical Imagination, 1764–1834: Slavery, Disease and Colonial Modernity, winner University English Book Prize 2020
Wendy M K Shaw, What is ‘Islamic’ Art?: Between Religion and Perception, honourable mention 2020 Albert Hourani Book Award, Middle East Studies Association
Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian, Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding, co-winner 2020 Association of Middle East Children and Youth Studies Book Award and 28th World Award for Book of the Year in Iran
Aaron Sheehan-Dean, The Cambridge History of the American Civil War, winner 2021 Distinguished Book Award-Reference, Society for Military History
Scott Skinner-Thompson, Privacy at the Margins, co-winner 2020 Gamm Justice Award, University of Colorado Law School
Hayden R Smith, Carolina’s Golden Fields: Inland Rice Cultivation in the South Carolina Lowcountry, 1670–1860, finalist 2020 George C. Rogers Jr. Award, South Carolina Historical Society
Tom Stammers, The Purchase of the Past: Collecting Culture in Post-Revolutionary Paris c.1790–1890, winner 2021 Gladstone Prize, Royal Historical Society
Sarah Steinbock-Pratt, Educating the Empire: American Teachers and Contested Colonization in the Philippines, finalist 2020 Mary Nickless Prize, Organization of American Historians and honourable mention 2020 Outstanding Book Award, History of Education Society
Lieke Stelling, Religious Conversion in Early Modern English Drama, shortlisted Shakespeare’s Globe Book Award 2020
Alan Strathern, Unearthly Powers: Religious and Political Change in World History, winner 2020 Bentley Prize, World History Association
Gavin Sullivan, The Law of the List: UN Counterterrorism Sanctions and the Politics of Global Security Law, winner 2021 ILAW Book Award, International Studies Association and shortlisted 2021 Early Career Researcher Book Prize, Socio-Legal Studies Association (SLSA)
Marie-Eve Sylvestre, Nicholas Blomley and Céline Bellot, Red Zones: Criminal Law and the Territorial Governance of Marginalized People, 2021 W. Wesley Pue Book Prize, Canadian Law and Society Association
Sabina Tanović, Designing Memory: The Architecture of Commemoration in Europe, 1914 to the Present, shortlisted 2021 First Book Award, The Memory Studies Association
Matthew M Taylor, Decadent Developmentalism: The Political Economy of Democratic Brazil, co-winner 2020 William M. LeoGrande Award
Guy Thomas, Loss Coverage: Why Insurance Works Better with Some Adverse Selection, winner 2019 Kulp-Wright Book Award
Jennifer Trahan, Existing Legal Limits to Security Council Veto Power in the Face of Atrocity Crimes, winner 2020 American Branch of the International Law Association Book Award
Guillermo Trejo and Sandra Ley, Votes, Drugs, and Violence: The Political Logic of Criminal Wars in Mexico, co-winner 2021 Democracy and Autocracy Section Best Book Award
Jessica Troustine, Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities, winner 2020 Best Book in the Field of Urban Affairs, Urban Affairs Association
Gerasimos Tsourapas, The Politics of Migration in Modern Egypt: Strategies for Regime Survival in Autocracies, winner 2020 Distinguished Book Award, Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Studies Section of the International Studies Association
Inés Valdez, Transnational Cosmopolitanism: Kant, Du Bois, and Justice as a Political Craft, winner 2020 Sussex International Theory Prize, Centre for Advanced International Theory
Dóra Vargha, Polio across the Iron Curtain: Hungary’s Cold War with an Epidemic, winner 2020 Medical Humanities Award, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Wellcome Trust
Juan José Ponce Vázquez, Islanders and Empire: Smuggling and Political Defiance in Hispaniola, 1580–1690, winner Alfred B Thomas Book Award, Southeastern Council of Latin American Studies
Sarah Thomsen Vierra, Turkish Germans in the Federal Republic of Germany: Immigration, Space, and Belonging, 1961–1990, finalist 2018 Waterloo Centre for German Studies Book Prize
Lora Anne Viola, The Closure of the International System: How Institutions Create Political Equalities and Hierarchies, winner 2021 Chadwick Alger Best Book Award
Steven Webster, American Rage: How Anger Shapes Our Politics, co-winner 2021 Juliette and Alexander L. George Outstanding Political Psychology Book Award, International Society of Political Psychology
Emma Whipday, Shakespeare’s Domestic Tragedies: Violence in the Early Modern Home, co-winner Shakespeare’s Globe Book Award 2020
Hazel Wilkinson, Edmund Spenser and the Eighteenth-Century Book, winner Isabel MacCaffrey Prize 2020, International Spenser Society
Marcus Willaschek, Kant on the Sources of Metaphysics: The Dialectic of Pure Reason, 2020 Book Prize of the North American Kant Society
Yves Winter, Machiavelli and the Orders of Violence, winner 2020 C. B. Macpherson Prize, Canadian Political Science Association
Lauren Working, The Making of an Imperial Polity: Civility and America in the Jacobean Metropolis, joint winner RHS Whitfield Prize, British and Irish History, Royal Historical Society
Dominic Meng-Hsuan Yang, The Great Exodus from China: Trauma, Memory, and Identity in Modern Taiwan, Memory Studies Association’s First Book Award
Luke B Yarbrough, Friends of the Emir: Non-Muslim State Officials in Premodern Islamic Thought, runner-up 2020 Book Prize, British-Kuwait Friendship Society
Ori Yehudai, Leaving Zion: Jewish Emigration from Palestine and Israel after World War II, finalist 2020 National Jewish Book Award, Writing Based on Archival Material Category
Jeffrey T Zalar, Reading and Rebellion in Catholic Germany, 1770–1914, winner 2020 DeLong Book History Prize, Society for the History of Authorship, memorizing and Publishing (SHARP)
Rachel Zuckert, Herder’s Naturalist Aesthetics, 2020 Outstanding Monograph Prize, American Society for Aesthetics
2020/2021 APSA Awards (American Political Science Association)
Bethany Albertson & Shana Kushner Gadarian, Anxious Politics: Democratic Citizenship in a Threatening World, Winner 2021 Doris Graber Award, American Political Science Association
Adam Auerbach, Demanding Development: The Politics of Public Goods Provision in India’s Urban Slums, winner 2021 Dennis Judd Best Book Award, American Political Science Association
Rodney Benson, Shaping Immigration News: A French-American Comparison, winner 2020 Doris Graber Award for Outstanding Book in Political Communication, American Political Science Association
Verónica Pérez Bentancur, Rafael Piñeiro Rodríguez and Fernando Rosenblatt, How Party Activism Survives: Uruguay’s Frente Amplio, winner 2020 Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award, Political Organizations and Parties, American Political Science Association
Christina Boswell, The Political Uses of Expert Knowledge: Immigration Policy and Social Research, winner 2020 Best Book Award, Ideas, Knowledge and Politics, American Political Science Association
Rachel E Brulé, Women, Power, and Property: The Paradox of Gender Equality Laws in India, Winner 2021 Gregory Luebbert Award, American Political Science Association
Allison Carnegie & Austin Carson, Secrets in Global Governance: Disclosure Dilemmas and the Challenge of International Cooperation, winner 2021 International Collaboration Section Best Book Award, American Political Science Association
Simukai Chigudu, The Political Life of an Epidemic: Cholera, Crisis and Citizenship in Zimbabwe, winner 2021 Theodore J. Lowi Award, American Political Science Association
Paul M Collins, Jr & Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha, The President and the Supreme Court: Going Public on Judicial Decisions from Washington to Trump, winner 2021 Richard E. Neustadt Award, American Political Science Association
Thad Dunning, Guy Grossman, Macartan Humphreys, Susan D Hyde, Craig McIntosh and Gareth Nellis, Information, Accountability, and Cumulative Learning: Lessons from Metaketa I, winner 2020 Best Book in Experimental Research, American Political Science Association
Ursula Hackett, America’s Voucher Politics: How Elites Learned to Hide the State, winner 2021 Education Politics & Policy Best Book Award, American Political Science Association
Mai Hassan, Regime Threats and State Solutions, Bureaucratic Loyalty and Embeddedness in Kenya, winner 2021 Robert A. Dahl Award, American Political Science Association
Boris Heersink & Jeffery A Jenkins, Republican Party Politics and the American South, 1865–1968, winner 2021 J. David Greenstone Book Prize, American Political Science Association
Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti, What is Christian Democracy?: Politics, Religion and Ideology, honourable mention 2020 Hubert Morken Best Book Award in Politics and Religion, American Political Science Association
Ashley Jardina, White Identity Politics, joint winner 2020 Robert E. Lane Award for the Best Book in Political Psychology, American Political Science Association
Nathan Kalmoe, With Ballots and Bullets: Partisanship and Violence in the American Civil War, winner 2021 Leon Epstein Outstanding Book Award, American Political Science Association
Ken I Kersch, Conservatives and the Constitution: Imagining Constitutional Restoration in the Heyday of American Liberalism, winner 2020 C. Herman Pritchett Award, Law and Courts, American Political Science Association
Ahmet T Kuru, Islam, Authoritarianism, and Underdevelopment: A Global and Historical Comparison, joint winner 2020 Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Prize for the Best Book in International History and Politics, American Political Science Association
Janet I Lewis, How Insurgency Begins: Rebel Group Formation in Uganda and Beyond, honourable mention, 2021 Giovanni Sartori Award, American Political Science Association
Noora Lori, Offshore Citizens: Permanent Temporary Status in the Gulf, co-winner 2020 Best Book Award, Migration and Citizenship, American Political Science Association and winner 2021 MENA Politics Section Best Book Award, American Political Science Association
Daniel C Mattingly, The Art of Political Control in China, co-winner 2021 Democracy and Autocracy Section Best Book Award, American Political Science Association
Gwyneth H McClendon and Rachel Beatty Riedl, From Pews to Politics: Religious Sermons and Political Participation in Africa, honourable mention Giovanni Sartori Prize, Qualitative and Multi-Method Research, American Political Science Association
Anne Meng, Constraining Dictatorship: From Personalized Rule to Institutionalized Regimes, winner 2021 William H. Riker Book Award, American Political Science Association
Eleonora Pasotti, Resisting Redevelopment: Protest in Aspiring Global Cities, honourable mention 2021 Dennis Judd Best Book Award, American Political Science Association
Davin L Phoenix, The Anger Gap: How Race Shapes Emotion in Politics, winner 2020 Ralph J. Bunche Award, American Political Science Association
Markus Prior, Hooked: How Politics Captures People’s Interest, joint winner 2020 Robert E. Lane Award for the Best Book in Political Psychology, American Political Science Association
Mark D Ramirez & David A M Peterson, Ignored Racism: White Animus Toward Latinos, winner 2021 Race, Ethnicity, and Politics Section Best Book Award, American Political Science Association
Christina J Schneider, The Responsive Union: National Elections and European Governance, honourable mention 2020 International Collaboration Book Award, American Political Science Association
Hendrik Spruyt, The World Imagined: Collective Beliefs and Political Order in the Sinocentric, Islamic and Southeast Asian International Societies, winner 2021 J. David Greenstone Book Prize, American Political Science Association
Chloe N Thurston, At the Boundaries of Homeownership: Credit, Discrimination, and the American State, winner 2020 J. David Greenstone Award, American Political Science Association
Guillermo Trejo & Sandra Ley, Votes, Drugs, and Violence: The Political Logic of Criminal Wars in Mexico, honourable mention 2021 William H. Riker Book Award, American Political Science Association
Christina Wolbrecht & J Kevin Corder, A Century of Votes for Women: American Elections Since Suffrage, winner 2021 Victoria Schuck Award, American Political Science Association
2020/2021 International Studies Association Prizes
Duncan Bell, Empire, Race and Global Justice, winner 2020 ISA History Section Joseph Fletcher Prize for an Edited Volume, International Studies Association
Jeffrey M Chwieroth and Andrew Walter, The Wealth Effect: How the Great Expectations of the Middle Class Have Changed the Politics of Banking Crises, winner PE section Best Book Award, International Studies Association
Marwa Daoudy, The Origins of the Syrian Conflict: Climate Change and Human Security, cowinner Charles Sprout Award 2020-2021 in Environmental Politics, International Studies Association
Noora Lori, Offshore Citizens: Permanent Temporary Status in the Gulf, co-winner 2021 ENMISA Distinguished Book Award, International Studies Association
Cecelia Lynch, Wrestling with God, winner Religion and International Relations Best Book Award, International Studies Association
Christoph O Meyer, Chiara De Franco and Florian Otto, Warning about War: Conflict, Persuasion and Foreign Policy, winner 2020 International Communications Section Best Book Award, International Studies Association
Andrew Phillips and Christian Reus-Smit, Culture and Order in World Politics, winner Theory Section Prize for the Best Edited Book, and honourable mention History Section Joseph Fletcher Prize for an Edited Volume, International Studies Association
Hendrik Spruyt, The World Imagined: Collective Beliefs and Political Order in the Sinocentric, Islamic and Southeast Asian International Societies, co-winner 2021 ENMISA Distinguished Book Award and co-winner Theory Section Book Prize, International Studies Association
Brent J Steele, Restraint in International Politics, co-winner Theory Section Book Prize, International Studies Association
Gavin Sullivan, The Law of the List: UN Counterterrorism Sanctions and the Politics of Global Security Law, winner Science, Technology and Art in International Relations Section 2021 Best Book Award, International Studies Association
2020 CHOICE Outstanding Titles
Philip J Armitage, Astrophysics of Planet Formation
Luke A Barnes, The Cosmic Revolutionary’s Handbook: (Or: How to Beat the Big Bang)
Avrim Blum, John Hopcroft and Ravindran Kannan, Foundations of Data Science
Max Born and Emil Wolf, Principles of Optics: 60th Anniversary Edition
Arianne Chernock, The Right to Rule and the Rights of Women: Queen Victoria and the Women’s Movement
George Corbett, Dante’s Christian Ethics: Purgatory and its Moral Contexts
Radek Erban and S Jonathan Chapman, Stochastic Modelling of Reaction–Diffusion Processes
Stephan Feuchtwang and Michael Rowlands, Civilisation Recast: Theoretical and Historical Perspectives
Kory Floyd, Affectionate Communication in Close Relationships
Roderick P Hart, Trump and Us: What he Says and Why People Listen
David P Henreckson, The Immortal Commonwealth: Covenant, Community, and Political Resistance in Early Reformed Thought
Yue Hou, The Private Sector in Public Office: Selective Property Rights in China
Gernot Hueber and Ali M Niknejad, Millimeter-Wave Circuits for 5G and Radar
Michael J Kaufman, Badges and Incidents: A Transdisciplinary History of the Right to Education in America
Simon Mee, Central Bank Independence and the Legacy of the German Past
Jürgen M Meisel, Bilingual Children: A Guide to Parents
Koryo Miura and Sergio Pellegrino, Forms and Concepts for Lightweight Structures
Joshua Nall, The Whipple Museum of the History of Science: Objects and Investigations, to Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of R.S. Whipple’s Gift to the University of Cambridge
Reviel Netz, Scale, Space, and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture
Brian G Ogolsky and J Kale Monk, Relationship Maintenance: Theory, Process and Context
Beth N Orcutt, Isabelle Daniel and Rajdeep Dasgupta, Deep Carbon, Past to Present
Ross D Parke and Glen H Elder, Jr., Children in Changing Worlds: Sociocultural and Temporal Perspectives
Andrew Phillips and Christian Reus-Smit, Culture and Order in World Politics
Adam Przeworski, Crises of Democracy
Michael P Richards and Kate Britton, Archaeological Science: An Introduction
Sonia E Rolland and David M Trubek, Emerging Powers in the International Economic Order: Cooperation, Competition and Transformation
Terry Smith, Whitelash: Unmasking White Grievance at the Ballot Box
Iain Stewart, Raymond Aron and Liberal Thought in the Twentieth Century
Aribidesi Usman, The Yoruba from Prehistory to the Present
Cara M Wall-Scheffler, Helen K Kurki and Benjamin M Auerbach, The Evolutionary Biology of the Human Pelvis: An Integrative Approach
Richard Williams, Verity Kemp, S Alexander Haslam, Catherine Haslam, Kamaldeep S Bhui and Susan Bailey, Social Scaffolding: Applying the Lessons of Contemporary Social Science to Health and Healthcare
Blake Wilson, Singing to the Lyre in Renaissance Italy: Memory, Performance, and Oral Poetry
Qiang Yang, Yu Zhang, Wenyuan Dai and Sinno Jialin Pan, Transfer Learning
2021 PROSE Awards (American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence)
Michael Bennett, War Against Smallpox: Edward Jenner and the Global Spread of Vaccination, finalist 2021 PROSE Award for History of Science, Medicine, and Technology
Amy R Bloch, The Art of Sculpture in Fifteenth-Century Italy, finalist 2021 PROSE Award for Art History and Criticism
Marc Peter Deisenroth, A Aldo Faisal and Cheng Soon Ong, Mathematics for Machine Learning, finalist 2021 PROSE Award for Textbook in the Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Philip Dwyer and Joy Damousi, The Cambridge World History of Violence, 4 Volume Hardback Set, winner 2021 PROSE Award for Single and Multivolume Reference and Textbooks in the Humanities
Alberto Espay, Benjamin Stecher and Brain Fables, The Hidden History of Neurogenerative Diseases and a Blueprint to Conquer Them, winner 2021 PROSE Award for Neuroscience
Kevin D Hunt, Chimpanzee: Lessons from our Sister Species, finalist 2021 PROSE Award for Biological Science
Simon Martin, Ancient Maya Politics: A Political Anthropology of the Classic Period 150–900 CE, winner 2021 PROSE Excellence Award in Humanities, Association of American Publishers
John Martin-Joy, Diagnosing from a Distance, finalist 2021 PROSE Award for Biological and Life Sciences Finalists, Clinical Medicine
David Merritt, A Philosophical Approach to MOND: Assessing the Milgromian Research Program in Cosmology, winner 2021 PROSE Excellence Award in Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Reviel Netz, Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture, winner 2021 PROSE Award for Classics
Beth N Orcutt, Isabelle Daniel and Rajdeep Dasgupta, Deep Carbon: Past to Present, winner 2021 PROSE Award for Earth Science
Andrea Rinaldo, Marino Gatto and Ignacio Rodriguez-Iturbe, River Networks as Ecological Corridors: Species, Populations, Pathogens, winner 2021 PROSE Award for Environmental Science
Terry Smith, Whitelash: Unmasking White Grievance at the Ballot Box, winner 2021 PROSE Award for Legal Studies and Criminology
S Sussman, The Cambridge Handbook of Substance and Behavioral Addictions, finalist 2021 PROSE Award for Biological and Life Sciences Finalists, Nursing and Allied Health
Steven Weinberg, Lectures on Astrophysics, winner 2021 PROSE Award for Textbook in the Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Educational Publishing Awards Australia 2020
Cambridge Science, winner Secondary Student Resource – Junior – Mathematics/Science category
2020 ELTons
Leslie Anne Hendra, Mark Ibbotson, Ben Goldstein, Kathryn O’Dell, Lindsay Clandfield, Ceri Jones and Philip Kerr, Evolve, finalist Excellence in Course Innovation